Friday, April 15, 2016

In the newsroom, moving pictures from the early forties

Well, '40 actually, in the comedy 'His Girl Friday'.

The newsroom mainly is the backdrop for lots of complications. Around the 75 minute mark the story gets written down. These days I'd hesitate to throw the carriage return the way she does...


Noiseless Standard? Would make sense, with dialogue needing to be heard as well.


This movie can be heard and seen now on The Archive:



(Oh, and indeed great hats ;-)

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